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January 08, 2008

Guidelines for Creating Strong Passwords

I've been on a bit of a blogging rant lately about using "strong passwords". Well, I'm sure at least a few of you are asking "what the heck is a strong password"???

Basically, by "strong password" I mean a password that is strong enough to hold up to password-guessing attacks. Here are a handful of guidelines to follow when creating your passwords:

* Use at least eight characters

* Include a combination of lowercase and capital letters, numbers and special characters

* Avoid passwords based on repetition, dictionary words, letter or number sequences

* Never use your username or personal information like names or dates or street addresses

* Use different passwords on different systems, websites and accounts

Posted by Hugh Garber at January 8, 2008 07:28 AM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page

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